Lakoff / Collier Biosecurity Interventions

Global Health and Security in Question
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-51177-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: A Columbia / SSRC Book

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lakoff, Andrew

Collier, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Problem of Securing Health, by Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff
2. From Population to Vital System: National Security and the Changing Object of Public Health, by Andrew Lakoff
3. Redesigning Syndromic Surveillance for Biosecurity, by Lyle Fearnley
4. How Did the Smallpox Vaccination Program Come About? Tracing the Emergence of Recent Smallpox Vaccination Thinking, by Dale A. Rose
5. Disease as Security Threat: Critical Reflections on the Global TB Emergency, by Erin Koch
6. Vital Mobility and the Humanitarian Kit, by Peter Redfield
7. Mapping the Multiplicities of Biosecurity, by Nick Bingham and Steve Hinchliffe
8. From Mad Cow Disease to Bird Flu: Transformations of Food Safety in France, by Frédéric Keck
9. Biodefense: Considering the Sociotechnical Dimension, by Kathleen M. Vogel
10. Anticipations of Biosecurity, by Carlo Caduff
Afterword. Episodes or Incidents: Seeking Significance, by Paul Rabinow
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Lakoff is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Program in Science Studies, University of California, San Diego. His book Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry examines epistemological debates on the source of mental disorders. His current work focuses on the development of techniques of preparedness among security experts in the United States.

Stephen J. Collier is assistant professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. He is coeditor of Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems and is completing a book on urbanism, social modernity, and neoliberal reform in contemporary Russia entitled Post-Soviet Social: "Neoliberalism" after the Washington Consensus. Currently he is engaged in research on new approaches to risk mapping and systems vulnerability.